The West Ham captain scored with a fierce effortTony O’Brien/Action Images

Ron Lewis

Last updated at 2:22PM, September 1 2012

The stats will read: no goals, no assists. But the impact Andy Carroll had on
his debut on loan for West Ham United should not be underestimated.

His inspired team-mates pulverised Fulham on Saturday lunch-time looking
anything like the relegation-threatened side they had impersonated seven
days previously against Swansea City.

“When a £35 million player walks through the door it gives you a lift,” Sam
Allardyce, the West Ham manager, said. “It doesn’t matter if you have signed
him or have him on loan. A player like that will give everyone a lift.”
Carroll was central to everything West Ham